PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. Senate Bill 324 / House Bill 204 establish various tracking and reporting requirements for MDE and the Department of Natural Resources concerning the enforcement of environmental and natural resources laws.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Wisconsin ’s environment agency once again begins drafting rules to limit PFAS pollution. . The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators. Wisconsin faces difficulty enforcing pollution control from small farms. billion annually.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

To determine the amount of the emissions cap, the state agency (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, which later became the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”)) would first determine the corresponding emissions from each emissions unit under the cap if it had pollution controls at the BACT level.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. “The

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

An interpretive rule “advise[s] the public of the agency’s construction of the statutes and rules which it administers…”An interpretive rule is a non-legislative rule that interprets or clarifies a provision previously promulgated through a statutory mandate or an agency regulation. exemptions under the CWA. Federal Register. 1344(f)(1)(A)).

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

But, behind the scenes, they have a long history of lobbying to delay and derail regulations that would prevent pollution, keeping us addicted to disposable plastic.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

ORSANCO is an interstate pollution control agency for the Ohio River that works on behalf of eight signatory member states to improve water quality through monitoring, assessment, and public information programs that ensure the Ohio River is safe for recreation, drinking and industrial supplies.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In Shirley, individual Republican legislators and various entities associated with two coal-fired power plants challenged a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) greenhouse gas control regulation. The regulation would enable the state to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Pennsylvania agencies have a constitutional duty to heed the overwhelming evidence and require minimum setbacks to protect the Commonwealth’s residents and natural resources from further peril.” “20 Click Here for a copy of the rulemaking petition. Both well plugging petitions were submitted to the EQB in November 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources Corporation President and CEO Nick Deiuliis announced a first-of-its-kind statement of mutual interests that will further heighten the company’s operational disclosures in collaboration with state environmental regulators and the public. DEP Pursue Regulation, Policy Changes Immediately Gov.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They based their campaign on state law, the powerful Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA), which gives citizens the right to protect all natural resources from “conduct” that is “likely to result in pollution, impairment, or destruction” from any source. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

Minnesota state regulators are penalizing the oil and gas company Enbridge for harming groundwater during the construction of the Line 3 pipeline. Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources is imposing additional penalties on Enbridge, the company that owns the Line 3 oil pipeline, for harming groundwater during its construction.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MAY 8, 2020

“Adjacent wetlands” is defined to mean any wetland that is connected to a jurisdictional water by (a) physically abutting the jurisdictional water, (b) inundation by flooding in a typical year from a jurisdictional water, or (c) physical separation from a jurisdictional water by a natural or artificial barrier. wastewater treatment systems.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2022

On May 5, Republican Senators Doug Mastriano (R-Adams) and Scott Hutchinson (R-Venango) introduced Senate Bill 1219 they said “to stabilize energy costs for Pennsylvanians, protect against market volatility in the long term, and utilize Pennsylvania’s unique natural resources to finally cement the Commonwealth as a premier energy powerhouse.”

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. In addition, the company filed an appeal with the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Glenn Youngkin (R)’s nomination of former EPA administrator to natural resources post. The policy should remain in place, the resolution says, until the Forest Service drafts and completes new regulations that would establish a revised wildfire strategy. Judge restores protections for gray wolves. International. 25-28, Mar.

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ESA

MAY 31, 2023

In this issue: Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach Biden administration must now rework recent Clean Water Act regulations. Congress House Natural Resources Committee passes Save Our Sequoias Act and legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The 5-4 ruling in Sackett v.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” or WOTUS. “In United States. 5345 ), sponsored by Rep. Comments received by Dec. 13, 2021.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Occasional opposition to local pollution problems and the casual animal cruelty that characterize conventional US dairy, hog, and poultry production did little to alter practices that are embedded in the rural landscape. EPA is weak on regulations on CAFOs,” said Emily Miller, a Food & Water Watch attorney. That may be changing.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Conservation: The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. Lawmakers voted down amendments from Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) that would have designated funding sources for the bill. This bill provides a combined $1.4 Bill sponsor Rep.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

Courts Supreme Court decision about California’s pork regulations could impact state climate regulations. The Obama Administration finalized a similar regulation, known as the Clean Power Plan, in 2015, but red state attorneys general challenged the rule in the courts and the Trump administration ultimately withdrew the regulation.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Nor was it successful in stifling California’s own, multifaceted pollution control, climate change and public health initiatives. can more effectively eviscerate federal environmental statutes and regulations.

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